- [Voiceover] Let's get started with Revit MEP 2017.The first thing I'd like to look at when we open up Revitis what we're confronted with here.This is the start up dialogue.It's broken down into a couple different sections.The first section we'll look at is the Projects.Of course we can Open, go to New,we can create a new project based on some of thesepredefined templates, or obviously we seethat we can open up our four last projectsthat we've had open.Now under Projects, what I'd like to do,let's go ahead and click on New project.

If we click the drop-down here,we'll see that this is basically a copyof what we see here.But if we click on Browse,now we see we have a bunch of defaultRevit templates that we can use.Now your company probably has their ownpredefined templates that you're mapped to,they also probably have these buttonsmapped to a template that we'd usefor your specific company.My company definitely does.If you're the one in charge of this,you want to make sure that you mapyour company out to be to this directory,or this directory wants to be your predefined templates.

For this course we're gonna use theAutodesk Revit predefined templates.So I'm gonna click Cancel.I'm gonna click Cancel here.Now you see that it's broken down into tabs,but all these tabs are pretty much grayed-outright now and there's not a lot we can do,but we're gonna use most of these tabsthroughout this course.After looking at all this, we can go down toAutodesk Revit and this brings youto Revit home page, and the resources,you can actually get quite a few videos over here.Lynda.com is included if you clickthe drop-down, Additional Resources,and you go 3rd Party Learning Content,you go right back in a full circle to Lynda.com.

Now what I'd like to do, under Projects,I'm gonna click on New.I'm gonna click Browse.I'm gonna find Electrical-Default_Metric,because this is what I'd like to start with,and I'd like to click Open.Now I wanna click OK.This brings us into Revit.Right now Revit doesn't know what it is,mine says Project7, yours might say Project1,it could say Project50.Either way it doesn't matter.But what we wanna do is come over hereand click the Save button.

Notice the tool bar that it's on.This is called the Quick Access tool bar, and againwe're gonna use this quite a bit throughout this course.Go ahead and click on the Save button.And I wanna browse to where I'm keeping my exercise files,and I'm simply gonna call this Electrical Project.Now before we hit Enter or Save,click on the Options button.The Maximum backups is three.Type in a 1 and hit OK,and click Save.

Now what I'd like you to do is hit the Save button again,and click the Open button.Now what we're gonna see is once we hit Saveit creates a copy.I'm not a huge fan of how Revit does this, actually,because you can see it from the actual project browser.Because Electrical Project is a dot RVT.That's a Revit project.The reason I had us turn our numberof backups to only one is, every timeyou hit the Save button it makes a backup called 001,then it makes a backup called 0002,then it makes a backup called 0003.

Every time you hit the save button it will do that.Once you hit it four times it over-writes 00001and it keeps going through there.What I find is a lot of times peopleaccidentally will open this file.So generally when I see these backups,I usually right-click on it and simply delete it.Go ahead and hit Cancel here.All right, there we go.That's how you get started creating an electrical project.

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MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) design is one of the major components of the BIM chain—and Revit is the design tool of choice for many MEP engineers. This course focuses on the MEP features of Revit 2018, the latest version of the software. It's designed for the novice user who prefers to work in metric units (meters, centimeters, etc.).

You can dive into a specific trade, or take the entire course to learn about all aspects of the vast Revit MEP ecosystem. Upon completion, you'll know how to create basic floor plans, design electric circuits and lighting systems, model air intake and exhaust systems, create plumbing plans, and design fire alarm and sprinkler systems, and document your designs for construction and fabrication.